Mrs F,
You have the Apeks Comfibite - which is ace. We bought some of the cheapies from fleebay and whilst they were the right shape they were very, very soft and needed hard biting to hold them - the apeks ones are much better.
Re. hose routing, we have tried swapping it to make it shorter so it doesnt 'push' so much, but that made it too short and it 'pulled'!! I think a good idea would be to try a few other hoses, maybe swap with mine?
Your hose does seem very stiff compared to my ones.....
Mr F
